All Whisky reviews

Thanks to @neorunner at talkbeer.com for sending me this bottle. Finishing it off tonight so I decided I better review it while I still can.Batch B13A7Pretty light in color, the label says aged less than…

Since this dram is hard to find here in Taipei, my friend and I sprung at the chance to pick up a bottle together. It had been a while since any Coal Ila whisky had graced my shelf, and I wasn’t sure…

Now, this is something I never thought I'd find at the LCBO - a single grain whisky from South Africa! Then again, since they brought in the Three Ships 5 Year Old, I should have expected this one as…

In 2006 and 2007 Diageo launched three different “Singleton” single malt whiskies that were produced at three different distilleries: a 12-year old Dufftown for Europe and Africa (2006), a 12-year old…

With a busy day ahead of me - shopping for a new bathroom vanity and dining room table - I need a pick-me-up on this Sunday morning, something to strengthen my resolve and bravely face the day! Goddammit…

Nose: Different. Warm, sweet, nose. Winey/Grape, and faint chocolate overtop of a faint grassy floral malt. Taste: the Amarone "dry red" wine influence really takes over and seems to overpower the malt…

A subtle but "classic Oban" nose. A balanced salty caramel malt with the ever present background smoke. On first taste, there is more caramel with the smoke wafting in the background but with some fruit…

As I open this bottle, I am indeed excited. Brilliant light amber/straw coloured yellow. Much lighter colour than my 15 or 18, but with a similar hue to the Leif Ericsson. Initially... a seemingly typ…

The entry level Arran seems to divide the whisky community, some appreciate its honest simplicity, for others this seems to be a deal breaker. Non chill-filtered and no colour was added, the golden straw…

Belgium whisky club Maltclan recently released their third bottling. It is again a bottling from Gordon & Macphail. After a first Glenrothes and a second Glenburgie they were in for a third 'Glen':…